Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
See book keywords and concepts |  In ayurveda, the fundamental healing philosophy is the concept of the three doshas, or basic types of energy or functional principles. These are vata (from ether and air), pitta (from fire and water), and kapha (from water and earth), and according to the principles of ayurveda, they are present in everyone and everything. Vata is the energy of movement. Pitta is the energy of digestion or metabolism. Kapha is the energy of lubrication and structure. All three doshas are present in everyone, but one is usually predominant in any given individual. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
See book keywords and concepts |  TRADITIONAL HERBAL MEDICINE
Traditional systems of medicine such as ayurveda from India, traditional Chinese medicine, Tibetan medicine, Greco-Arabic medicine (Unani-Tibb), Eclectic medicine, and kampo from Japan have a long and impressive history of effectiveness. Lesser-known traditions, including Physiomedicalism and Native American, African, and Siddha (Sri Lankan) medicine, also contribute a wealth of knowledge and experience that we can glean. |
Roberta Bivins
See book keywords and concepts |  Amongst that public in India were, of course, many well-educated and active healers and consumers of the indigenous medical systems, whether Unani Tibb, Siddha, or ayurveda. Such colonial subjects were not only well aware of contemporary medical debates, but actively used the arguments put forward by European critics of scientific medicine to support education and training in traditional medical systems. | | For example in ayurveda, the accumulated karma of the embodied soul (which, during its tenure in the body takes the form of ojas) can alter the body's health, and can explain illnesses not tractable to either alchemical or hydraulic explanations. In western medicine, prayer, repentance, and religious cleansing were resorts both of individuals and of societies in medical crises.
All of these bodies were endowed with vital energy, and were intercalated with consciousness through the senses or the emotions. | | As in the Ayurvedic and humoural models of the body and its organs, each Chinese organ was associated with one of the archetypal substances, and with all of its linked qualities and affinities. Like ayurveda, Chinese medicine has traditionally been concerned with functional rather than structural anatomy—in other words, Chinese doctors focused on physiology (which, of course, could be assessed from the outside) rather than on physical structure (which would have demanded extensive, and culturally forbidden dissection). | | As with ayurveda, much of East Asian medical theory emerges from a more ancient narrative of the creation of the universe and of the natural world. This story, like that of the Vedas (with which it is roughly contemporary), combines an overarching belief in the unity of nature with a group of nested ordering categories, into one of which all natural objects must fall. These categories are themselves defined through a set of material traits and characteristics. | | A Tamil variant of ayurveda called Siddha medicine, meanwhile, offered another way of thinking about the body and its functions, portraying it as an alchemical laboratory. The healthy body takes in gross matter and purifies it through the metabolic processes of digestion and circulation. The component of spirit or energy which exists in every natural object, and which is identical with the life force, is thus released to the body. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
See book keywords and concepts |  Ayurvedic Detoxification
Practiced in India for the past 5,000 years, Ayurvedic medicine is a comprehensive system of medicine that combines natural therapies with a highly personalized approach to maintaining health. ayurveda describes three metabolic, constitutional, and body types (doshas) based on combinations of the five basic elements of nature in combination. These are vata (air and ether, rooted in intestines), pitta (fire and water, rooted in the stomach), and kapha (water and earth, rooted in the lungs). |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
See book keywords and concepts | | Charaka Samhita, the classic text of ayurveda, mentioned amla, guduchi, holy basil, and shilajit.
77 CE: De Materia Medica, written by Greek physician Dioscorides, described six hundred medicinal plants, including licorice and rhodiola.
220: The Shennong Herbal recorded 252 medicinal herbs used in China, including Asian ginseng, astragalus, and reishi.
1755: Rhodiola was included in the first Swedish Pharmacopoeia. In the past, Vikings had used the herb to enhance their physical strength and endurance.
1947: The term adaptogen is coined by Dr. Nikolai Lazarev. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Habitat: Originally indigenous to northern India, the plant is now found in all the areas of ayurveda medicine in India, Sri Lanka and the Maylan archipelago.
Production: Vasaca leaves are the leaves of Justicia adhatoda.
Other Names: Arusa, Adulsa
ACTIONS AND PHARMACOLOGY
COMPOUNDS
Quinazoline alkaloids: including vasicine and vasicinone Volatile oil
EFFECTS
Mildly spasmolytic, bronchodilatory and expectorant.
INDICATIONS AND USAGE
Vasicin was formerly used as the starting substance for the development of the mucolytics Bromhexin® and Ambroxol®. | | LITERATURE
Bambhole VD, Jiddewar GG, (1985) Sach ayurveda 37(9):557.
El Moghazy AM et al., (1980) Fitoterapia 5:237.
Krick W et al, (1983) Z Naturforsch Sect C Biosci 38 (9/10): 689.
Morita N et al., (1973) Chem Pharm Bull 21, 600. Tsukida K et al., (1973) Phytochemistry 12:2318. Further information in:
Duke JA, A Handbook of Medicinal Herbs, Pub. CRC Press Boca Raton 1985.
Frohne D, Pfaiider HJ, Giftpflanzen - Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker, Toxikologen und Biologen, 4. Aufl., Wiss. Verlags-Ges Stuttgart 1997.
Kern W, List PH, Horhammer L (Hrsg. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
See book keywords and concepts | | According to ayurveda, health is a state of balance between the body, mind, and consciousness. In ayurvedic medicine, there is a balance of the three dosha, or bodily humors, known as the tridoshas: kapha, pitta, and vata. The first requirement for health is a proper balance of the doshas. The root cause of imbalance, or disease, is an aggravation of a dosha caused by a wide variety of internal and external factors.
The Charaka Samhita states that problems of the digestive system are the root of disease. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
See book keywords and concepts | | Bambhole VD, Jiddewar GG, Sach ayurveda 37(9):557. 1985
Duke JA, A Handbook of Medicinal Herbs, Pub. CRC Press Boca Raton. 1985.
El Moghazy AM et al., Fitoterapia 5:237. 1980Frohne D, Pfander HJ, Giftpflanzen - Ein Handbuch fiir Apotheker, Toxikologen und Biologen, 4. Aufl., Wiss. Verlags-Ges Stuttgart 1997.
Kern W, List PH, Horhammer L (Hrsg.), Hagers Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, 4. Aufl., Bde. 1-8, Springer Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1969.
Lewin L, Gifte und Vergiftungen, 6. Aufl., Nachdruck, Haug Verlag, Heidelberg 1992. |
Roberta Bivins
See book keywords and concepts | | These tissues bind mind and spirit to the physical body, while strengthening and supporting them. Ayurveda's parallel to the western humours (dosa in Sanskrit) circulate around the dhatus. These vital fluids are vata, pitta, and kapha—wind or breath, bile, and phlegm—and as in western humouralism, they are considered to be physical substances. But the dosas differ from the humours in that they are not just physical fluids. |
Glenn W. Geelhoed, M.D. and Jean Barilla, M.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  Some people claim that ayurveda is the oldest recorded system of medicine in the world, tracing its roots back to a book called the Rig Veda published in India in 1,500 B.C. From India, some of Ayurveda's tenets spread to China in 700 A.D. through Buddhist missionaries. About 100 years later, Ayurvedic books were translated into Arabic, and Islamic teachers later spread Ayurveda's teachings to Europe in the 1500s.
Modern-day ayurveda concentrates on maintaining health through a balance between the body (shira), mind (manas) and self (atman). |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |  It becomes increasingly active as the sun rises to higher positions. ayurveda calls the period between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. "Kapha time," which means that your body is still a bit slow. This allows the body to gather strength and stamina. Whether or not you wake with an alarm clock, at around 6:00 a.m. the kidney glands secrete the stress hormones Cortisol and adrenaline to get your body going; this is similar to a battery starting an engine. At this time the sex hormones in the body also reach their peak levels. | | If you have been diagnosed with this disorder you should consult with a doctor of ayurveda, Chinese Medicine or an ND (doctor of naturopathic medicine) who is knowledgeable about nutrition and its effects on the body's endocrine glands.
Gingko Biloba—Brain Food; And Coenzyme Q10
I also recommend Gingko Biloba, available at most health food stores. Guarana and Gingko seem to complement each other. Gingko is considered brain food. It apparently increases blood flow to the brain, thereby improving memory and brain function. | | Thousands of years ago, ayurveda proclaimed that the main cause of ill health and premature death is located in the bowel. The ancient healers considered the large intestine to be an extremely important part of the body due to its vital roles. These include the synthesis and absorption of certain essential nutrients for the nervous system and the elimination of waste matter. When you think of it, without the internal motion (Vata) of fluids, waste and nutrients, the body would be dead.
Vata translates as "air" or movement, and as such, is present throughout the body. | | At every moment, the body undergoes profound changes by adjusting to the continually changing environment and recurring cyclic patterns. ayurveda has a unique understanding of these cycles. It knows of three principal forces, or energies, each of which emits a powerful influence on the body and mind for a period of four hours, twice in a 24-hour day. These forces of nature, which conduct all the complex activities in the human body, as well as those that sustain the universe, are known as the three doshas: Vata, Pitta and Kapha. | | The theory of blood type foods is really based on guesswork, not on science or time-tested traditional knowledge as found in ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, Greek medicine or ancient Egyptian medicine.
If concentrated protein foods were a necessary part of the human diet, as the blood type diet advocates for the O-type, for example, why does nature not reflect that need when it formulates human milk in a mother's breast? Its protein content is a mere trace amount of 1.1-1.6 percent, provided to a baby at the time of its biggest growth spurt. | | In case he has any unusual symptoms, you may consult a natural practitioner of ayurveda, Homeopathy, Chinese Medicine, etc., for home treatment remedies. It is better not to give aspirin to children during or after an illness as this can interfere with the body's own healing response. If your doctor insists on giving antibiotics to your child when he has one of the above illnesses or symptoms, try to find another doctor to give you a second opinion. In most cases, there is no need for drugs. |
Michael Friedman, ND
See book keywords and concepts |  On the other hand, the approach of ayurveda is an integrated one, which takes into account the psychosomatic constitution; biometriological parameters; and chronobiological and physiological doshic rhythms vis-a-vis the pathological state of the body.5
It is surprising that what is being claimed as recently discovered has already been emphasized in the ancient literature of ayurveda. Seven types of body constitutions have been describedVataja, Pittaja, Kaphaja, Vatapittaja, Patakaphaja, Vatakaphaja, and Samdoshaja. | | Prameha (diabetes) has been classified to be of three major types in Ayurveda: Kaphaja, Pittaja, and Vataja. But these classifications are not strict. There is a direct reference in ayurveda that all types of Prameha in due time, particularly if not managed properly, lead to a particular stage (Madhumeha), which is characterized by severe hyperglycaemia, sever glycosuria, and acetonuria.17'18 This indicates the concept of progression of the illness with the advancing duration. On this basis three stages of Prameha have been identified: Kaphaja, Pittaja, and Vataja. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
See book keywords and concepts |  Based on treating the entire patient and not just the symptoms, integrative medicine is a mix of proven Eastern and Western disciplines, giving patients the benefits of practices that have worked for thousands of years — ayurveda, acupuncture, chiropractic, energy healing, tai chi, massage therapy, etc. — coupled with more modern techniques of traditional Western medicine. Unfortunately, most health insurance companies do not pay for preventive "alternative" therapies, so people must spend their hard-earned money to take advantage of integrative medicine. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
See book keywords and concepts | | Habitat: Originally indigenous to northern India, the plant is now found in all the areas of ayurveda medicine in India, Sri Lanka, and the Maylan archipelago.
Production: Vasaca leaves are the leaves of Justicia adhatoda. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  As Amanda Morningstar explains about the cow in her excellent book Ayurvedic Cooking for Westerners, "her milk and her butter, clarified as ghee, are like mother's milk in ayurveda, absolutely essential for health and well-being. They must be pure to do this. Many Westerners are concerned that the use of ghee will increase their cholesterol or add unnecessary amounts of fat to their diet. Used within the context of an Ayurvedic lifestyle, this is unlikely to happen." Dr. Annemarie Colbin would agree. |
Gabriel Cousens
See book keywords and concepts |  Cousens uses the modalities of nutrition, naturopathy, ayurveda, and homeopathy blended with spiritual awareness in the healing of body, mind, and spirit. He facilitates the spiritual, nutritional, and lifestyle support tele-seminars, "Alive With Gabriel," and has given seminars on nutrition through the U.S., Canada, Central and South America, all of Western Europe, Turkey, Greece, Israel, and South Africa. Through his books, media, and body-mind-spirit transformative programs at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, Dr. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
See book keywords and concepts | | We often refer to ayurveda or traditional Chinese medicine when discussing adaptogens. The reason is that eighteen of the twenty-one adaptogens we discuss have been used as medicines in either ayurvedic practice or traditional Chinese medicine. Because these traditions are thousands of years old, there is both a rich history and strong credibility as to their use and effectiveness. Table 1.2 lists the adaptogens with their Chinese and ayurvedic names and some additional common names.
Many popular books and Web sites refer to adaptogens by a variety of common names. | | According to ayurveda and other traditional systems of medicine, health is a state of balance between the body, mind, and consciousness. Many healers have come to the conclusion that the body naturally self-corrects and moves toward maintaining health and balance. Maintaining balance is part of life and, as such, is what we knowingly or unknowingly strive for. Nature and the environment are constantly striving for organization, healing, and balance.
Another nonmedical philosophy of well-being is holistic health, which addresses the care of the whole person—body, mind, spirit, and environment. |
Dawson Church
See book keywords and concepts |  In addition, doctors Dozor and Barnett have a compendious knowledge of ayurveda, Chinese medicine, herbalism, and other alternative medical specialties.
The treatment protocol is coordinated by a computer system that tracks patient files and updates them in real time. During a consultation with the naturopath, for instance, he enters his notes on a screen that is immediately available to all the other practitioners. He might also walk ten steps down the hall to consult with the psychologist or with the family physician. |
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